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Because the Un-American Affairs Committee was allowed to have a look at this investigative file. They discovered that, and they brought it out. It came out on the floor of Congress, you see, that Mrs. Robert Taft's name was in the investigative file, and they raised the roof about it! The Congressmen stormed up and down. I can't remember the name of that little fellow who made such a fuss about it. Oh dear, one of the wildest ones we ever had to deal with it. Terrible--the Government taking this beautiful lady's name in vain, and so forth. All they had done was just cut out the clipping, you know, and put it in the file. It didn't mean anything at all.

Well, anyhow, after that we set up an elaborate system of everything being locked up, and nobody could get into the files unless they had a pass--the investigative leads part. I was for abolishing the whole investigative leads, but I became convinced through what was said by Melloy and others of our own, and a very nice fellow who worked with the Department of Civil Service at the head of our investigations--an excellent man, a splendid man who investigated ordinarily the applicants for jobs as to their competency, intellectual competence, but who took on this other form of investigation also. From him and from Melloy and from Hoover and others, I came to the realization that the investigative leads is an essential part of the investigative program. I mean, you pick up